Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math, and sorry for any inconvenience caused.
I checked the page source, it looks like Rank Math is currently disabled on your website.
Please activate Rank Math, then enable the sitemap module from the Rank Math dashboard:
Once done, clear the website and browser cache and check the sitemap at https://thecakeplay.com/sitemap_index.xml
If you are not using NGINX, you can dismiss that notice.
Looking forward to helping you.
thanks for your answer, it’s all okey right now ! I have submitted the sitemap to the search console but it says that there is an error (that the sitemap seems like an html page)
https://zupimages.net/up/21/42/xens.jpg
do I have to correct something ?
thanks for your help !
Hello,
Can you please follow these steps?
1. Flush the Sitemap cache by following this video screencast:
https://i.rankmath.com/pipRDp
2. Exclude the Sitemap files of the Rank Math plugin in your caching plugin. The cache could be via a plugin or from the server. For plugins or Cloudflare, please follow this article:
https://rankmath.com/kb/exclude-sitemaps-from-caching/
Once done, clear the website cache and resubmit the sitemap_index.xml in Google Search Console.
That should fix the issue. Please let me know if that does not. We are here to assist.
Hello,
From your screenshot, it seems that you’re Rank Math is still set to Easy Mode.
Please note that some options are only available when you enable the Advanced Mode in Rank Math. If it’s not showing, you must have chosen to use the Easy Mode. Please follow the steps in this link to switch to Advanced Mode:
https://rankmath.com/kb/advanced-mode/
I hope that helps.
Thank you.
thanks it works now. Do you advise me to delete the previous sitemaps in my search console or it’s not important ?
Hello,
You may need to resubmit your main sitemap to let Google know the updated version of your sitemaps and ask to recrawl them.
Here’s a link on how to submit your sitemap to Google:
https://rankmath.com/kb/submit-sitemap-to-google/
I hope that helps.
Thank you, and please don’t hesitate to contact us anytime if you need further assistance with anything else.
thanks a lot, it really helps !
Hello,
You’re welcome.
We are super happy that we have addressed your concerns. If you have any other questions in the future, know that we are here to help you.
If you don’t mind us asking, could you please leave us a review (if you haven’t already) on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post about your overall experience with Rank Math? We appreciate your time and patience.
If you have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.
Thank you.
